Judgments Registry (Ireland) Act, 1871

Power to reduce the staff of the office if it be excessive ;

and to transfer clerks not required to other departments.

16. If it shall hereafter appear to the said Lord Chancellor that the number of clerks in the said office is greater than is required for the due despatch of business, it shall be lawful for him, by and with the consent of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, to order that the number of such clerks shall be reduced, and that, if opportunity shall offer, such clerk or clerks as he shall consider not required in the said office shall be transferred to such other department of the public service as the said Lord Chancellor shall, with the consent of the said Lords Commissioners, by such order direct.